Cut up the fenders and front bumper. I wanted to follow the original curve, I never liked how people would square off the cut at the fender. I kept the fender liners in and screwed and zip tied where I could and then cut off the excess.
Will be installing my 3rd set of cv boots. OEM lasted 145k miles. 2 sets of RCVs lasted about 15k each. Last time I went back with OEM got another 30k, now those have split. They were definitely not the same quality rubber that the original OEM were. They had a much more plastic feeling. I got...
How long have you owned it? When you say, "rust on the frame" to what extent? Have you been wheeling it or was that previous owner? Have the diffs been serviced lately?
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Technically caliper bolts are one time use according to Toyota. Usually higher torque specs stretch the bolt to a place they can't recover. Get some new ones and use some thread locker